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Jessica Burnam creates families of abstracted bodies and souls to explore how vulnerability, growth, and decay etch themselves on the landscape that is the body. She is fascinated by science fiction, the symbolism of boats and of ladders, and by all manner of small and significant things: appendages and apertures, biomorphic systems and fantastic abnormalities, cold glass and little buds that bristle.

Bio

Jessica Burnam received her BA with highest honors in sculpture from the University of Virginia in 2015 and was a recipient of the Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship at the University of Virginia from 2015 to 2016. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch (2016) and her solo show, Vessel, was exhibited at Hillyer Art Space, Washington, D.C. (July ’17). She currently holds a studio practice in Mount Rainier, MD., and has a forthcoming solo exhibition at Red Dirt Studio. (November 2018)